{"product_id":"ironys-antics-erica-weitzman-9780810133600","title":"Irony's Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition","description":"\u003ci\u003eIrony's Antics\u003c\/i\u003e marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic and its relationship to irony in German letters.\u003cbr\u003eCombining theoretical breadth with close textual analysis, Erica Weitzman shows how irony, a key term for the German romantics, reemerged in the early twentieth century from a postromantic relegation to the nonsensical and the nihilistic in a way that both rethought romantic irony and dramatically extended its reach.\u003cbr\u003eThrough readings of works by Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth against the rich history of comic theory (particularly Hegel and Freud), Weitzman traces the development of a specifically comic irony in modern German-language literature and philosophy, a play with the irony that is itself the condition for all play. She thus provides a crucial reevaluation of German literary history and offers new insights into the significance of irony and the comic from the Enlightenment to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erica Weitzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810133601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810133600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Erica Weitzman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096742961407,"sku":"9780810133600","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ironys-antics-erica-weitzman-9780810133600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}